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There's 3 stages of wealth and lawn care: 1) I'm poor and have to cut my own grass 2) I can afford to pay someone else to do it 3) I'm rich enough to buy my own riding mower and love driving around doing it

I never engage with anybody who calls me that i don't know. I have to call Walgreen's a lot for prescription issues. It takes 90 seconds to finally get thru the pharmacy line, meaning it's calling them directly. Until then I get the automated script about hours and "if this is an emergency...." I am told that "In most cases I can help you...." which is not true for my situation, which is why I am calling. Their system is only as good as the app. If the app can't do it, then I call.

The kids’ll love it, the kids’ll love it …

Is "the game" important to the average Washingtonian in a bar on a Saturday night? It may be a company town, but maybe playoff hockey matters more to those not actually attending the dinner. The upshot here is that the WHCD dinner an irrelevant and outdated institution. And the shock value of threats against a hugely unpopular President just has diminishing returns at this point?

Many retail stores have LED digital shelf tags showing price posted in front of products, which presumably are Bluetooth-enabled and thus can be changed online. So the idea, I guess, would be to triangulate your position in the store via GPS with the products they know you buy frequently through your loyalty program via a persistent cookie on your phone, and then as you position yourself closer to the product, the price on the shelf labels increases. Either that, or, they have no shelf label posted showing price, then when you pick up the product and have it scanned at the register along with your loyalty ID, they apply a “special” price “just for you”. Now that I spool it out, the latter seems more likely as long as people get used to not seeing prices listed on shelves.

This is why I’m thinking their strategy might be to not to stop the election beforehand as some people believe, something the American people are not close to being ready to accept, but to tie up the results in court instead, to the point which Congress will not be ready (or willing) to seat representatives on January 3, and we would be without a Congress for an indefinite period of time. (lol, I know big loss.) That, or Republicans might refuse to accept the results of Democratic wins, Mike Johnson will still claim speakership, he will seat a quorum of Republicans, including election losers, in order to act as a rubber stamp for Trump for as long as they can manage to (i.e., an “anticongress”). Either way, it would solidify the unitary power of Trump and lead to who knows what after that.

I also said Detroit would sweep. So, ya know.

They were a member for 59 years

All of these explanations ignore that perhaps he's been honed down to his gritty layer and it's all sustainable. The Tigers end up with a roster chock full of infielders that can play 7 positions, Hinch in 7th heaven.

39 - accurate number of letters in his last name.

So, the original Dylan Byers note was correct. DC is an industry town. Not having "the game" on (which for DC's media and political community is the WHCD) is not cool if "the game" is as important to the community of interest as the WHCD is. But, private equity or some gulf sheikh probably owns the bar (forget about any kind of local mom and pop joint) and they don't want anything stopping people from drinking and hooking up. The goobers not caring about the WHCD is of interest to the fact that most people don't focus on the details of how the sausage is made. Somnolence is one results. The other is gross distortion because the distance and filters people get media from make it harder to understand the relevance of many parts of how the sausage is made.

I hope that he was gambling on his team last year so that he could share with the many of us that lost money on his ****ty play at Cincinnati.

I also have to give a shout out to @Deleterious and @Betrayer. For the last year, they have both repeatedly talked about this exact scenario of the Duren offensive model not working in the playoffs. Here we are and it’s come to fruition almost exactly as they predicted. Amazing that Trajan and any of 35 VP’s that are employed by the club couldn’t figure out.

The Magic FO deserves credit. They made a trade that was universally panned. 4 unprotected firsts for Desmond Bane. They got exactly what they wanted and needed from him. He wasn’t the 2nd option down the stretch. He was the guy. Making huge shots and also providing a little attitude that they needed in this series. Their roster only played 19 games together and we are seeing first had what they are capable of at full strength. One GM rolled the dice with a huge move and the other did nothing for fear of “upsetting the culture of the room”. The results are showing.

He would good driving my 1957 Chevy Babe the Blue Ox.

Sweet gas prices. Thanks @Tigeraholic1 and @Archie you guys nailed it there.

Might as well start this series with a win. And since he's already at 5 straight games, Tork might as well hit another home run to make it 6 and break the Tiger's record.

Little Caesars Arena - Detroit, MI Watch: Prime

Aren't prices posted on the items when you come in ? Like, if I am looking at a box of Multigrain Cheerios, how are they going to charge me somehting different if the price is posted right in front of the item? Is this for online shopping only? Only time I have ever bought groceries and had them delivered is when I had Covid. Whenever I go to the store I always buy some sort of produce and I have to pick that out myself, plus I live in Dearborn and I probably have 15 grocery or produce stores within a 10 minute drive. Maybe more, so a quick trip is all that's needed. The new Harvest Market in Ann Arbor at Briarwood is very convenient because I work less then half a mile from there. I thought they would be really overpriced, but they are not. Lots of produce too. I love it. Props to Maryland for protecting people. Again, as I have posted in other threads, it just floors me - why can't we just live in a stand-up world? If you just sold what you sold without this nonsense, you're still making plenty of money. It's never enough, though, is it?

The Red Sox are in a very very tough division. One that any team within it (including themselves) could win. It seems to me that they did not do much to improve themselves in the offseason, so they blamed the manager. Correct me if I am wrong (because I don't pay close attention like I used to), but they changed their strategy from run scoring to run-prevention and they gave that change a month? Changes like that take time. The Tigers are a run-prevention team too and that took a couple of years to finally click and they were in a much weaker division. Now, the Mets. What a ****ing disaster. Swept at home by the Rockies? LOL. I am stunned Mendoza still has his job. Mets fans must be screaming MENDOZA like McBain does in the Simpsons. I am stunned that Alex Cora hasn't already been named Mets manager. He's still a good manager, but the change in strategy in Boston wasn't given any time. If the Mets don't make the move for Cora very soon, the Phillies probably will. This Braves series is going to be a very tough one for the Tigers. I think they'll be fortunate to win one. Who are the Guardians playng this week?

Games going down to the wire only magnify the turnovers and missed free throws. Just get a basket on half of the turnovers...even a third...and it's a win.

Okay, I will dunk now.

Did I say season? I meant "first half."

Yeah, don't do anything significant at the trade deadline. We've seen this before Tigers could have used just one more hitter. Nope, we get washed up pitchers like Charlie Morton Wings year-after-year don't do anything at the deadline - finallly get someone this year and he makes it worse. But the Pistons - having the season they were having - did next to nothing to capitalize on it. And here we are. This team could win 3 in a row. But not likely now.

The big jump in OPS goes back as far as last August but the K rate was still terrible even late last season - so the better K rate this season is only on 80 AB so far. The better production has been over a little more than 200 AB. I suppose Candelario had close to a half season of higher production before falling back, but the recollection is hazy and I'm too lazy to look him up. The thing with Workman is that IIRC, he was also showing signs of improvement after the Cubs picked him up but he didn't sustain it then, makes you wonder more if he can sustain it now either - or maybe it means he is closer to getting his act together? Time will tell soon enough.